Implementing Project Portfolio Management: From Organization Structure to Recognized Revenue · Module 8 · Resource Breakdown Structures
Proving the structure works
Lesson 88 of 198 · 10 min
Run the verification checklist. Build a small project plan against the planning structure — as a project manager would. Record an actual cost, show it mapping into the reporting structure, view the roll-up, then show a cost that FAILS to map, and diagnose it. THE MAPPING FAILURE IS THE ONE TO SEE. An actual cost with no home in the reporting structure lands in an unclassified bucket — and the executive report has a line called "other" that grows every month. Build the plan yourself, at planner speed. If it is awkward for you it is worse for them.
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In this module: Module 8 · Resource Breakdown Structures
- 1What we are building
- 2Why the RBS is permanent
- 3Resource classes and resource formats
- 4Planning versus reporting structures
- 5Designing the hierarchyFree preview
- 6Running the RBS design workshop
- 7Creating a planning RBS
- 8Adding planning resources
- 9Centralized versus project-level maintenance
- 10Creating a reporting RBS
- 11Proving the structure works
- 12What breaksFree preview
- 13Lab briefing: plan for a CFO and a bid team at once
- 14Lab solution walkthrough